***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[muesky]

I'm wanting it to feed to Sebastopol geese during breeding season

Aawww!!! If you find some place that sales it let us know...

Not very sure what is wrong with my lav orp legs but I have come close to figuring out what is wrong with the buff cochin cockerel foot. Actually it's feet. I was watching him walking today and I noticed he brings his feet up high to his belly. That explains why there were feathers missing. I looked at his feet much closer and what I thought was mud and poo is poo, blood, scab and whatever else to coat parts of his little feet. Oh the poor dear. It breaks my heart because some of his toe tips look like frost bite (black tips). I don't know what to do now. I was trying to find him a home but now I don't want to give him to just anyone. My neighbor kid wants to give him to his cousin but I know the poor thing will get no care. Would any of you consider this to be a situation to cull a rooster? I wish I took pics after soaking them in some Epsom salt water. A few cracks that were sealed stared to bleed and I just don't know how to get that thick scab off without actually cutting it off. No wonder he was limping around. The two pullets seem just fine though...
Would it make a difference if I let the auction people know what condition I have gotten these chickens in? I am just so disgusted that this is more than one consigner that has put in chickens in such a sad condition.

I am just so sad for that poor boy.

Are you sure the cochin's toes are black or just covered with poop? I have gotten chicks that had poo balls stuck to their toes..

Everytime I have cochin chicks with other LF chicks, I think that the cochins seem ill because they are smaller, less feathered than the others as well.

They are slow growing but when they get to their full size they are huge!!! Love me some LF

Does anyone else find there are not enough hours in their day?

I am afraid that even if there was 48 hours in a day it would not be enough...

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

If you have any resp antibiotics like Tetroxy HCA or Gallymicin I would give her a round of that, or a shot of Tylan daily for 3 days.

Just finished revamping my website for the year, I've been working on it for a week and it is a TON of work! Take a look and see what you think! Hubby wants to offer a "local pickup discount" too like 15% off. Gives close friends and BYCers a better deal and saves us the hassle of shipping. www.chickenfanatics.com

And our little puppy is growing up!

Izzy (10 year old aussie mix) and Merlin (7 month old Aussie)

Pretty Pups

 

[TaraBellaBirds]

We only let ours free range when they are home. When it gets dark early it works out great. They are really only outside the time it takes to do chores and next thing you know they are inside in the coop for the night. Occasionally I have a foolish roo that hides out and is wandering the property in the morning.

We do the same thing. My husband is not crazy about them in the yard but I tell him they will fertilized his grass for him

!

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh, I'll keep it. I've been wanting a larger incubator ever since the last one went up in smoke when our house burned down in 2012. I don't think it's going to take a lot of work to get it going. The power cord is the only thing that is obviously messed up and everything else is still there-- even the internal wiring. I can't wait to start using it. We have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy around here; I don't ask hubby before I get something and I don't tell him after I do. By the time he discovers my latest acquisition, it's already part of the routine. Bless his heart! I doubt that he had any idea of what he was getting into when he married me!

As far as the massacre, I really don't think it was a dog, for a couple of reasons. I can see a dog leaving them piled up like that, but not carrying off completely 15 or so full grown chickens in the matter of an hour. Also, we live in an isolated spot with no stray dogs around. Our farm dogs are usually pretty alert. At first, I thought it might have been hubby's dog, but there again, she wouldn't have carried off so many without a trace. I'm really leaning toward coyotes. There is a large overgrown field that abuts our property close to where the chicken pen is and they could slip in and out very quickly without being seen. Two days in a row last week there was one walking along the edge of the pond that runs in front of our house about 9:30 in the morning. When I stepped out and yelled at him, I swear he just flipped me off and kept on walking. He was not concerned about me at all. I planned to be waiting for him the third morning with rifle in hand, but ended up having to leave and haven't had a chance to lay for him since. There are bobcats around here, too, but I doubt they would come up in broad daylight. Doesn't much matter what it was, I guess. I just can't let my chickens free range. Period! Stupid predators!

I had a known dog massacre and no they were not stacked, they were scattered everywhere, even the ones she moved she didn't stack they were moved and scattered.

 

[erinszoo]

So now we have a duck problem ... mystery of sorts.

We've always had ducks. Not sure why because we don't eat their eggs. We just love having them. And this year we finally successfully hatched some. They've done fine and we moved them out to the duck pen and all was well.

Until last week. We woke up one morning to find one of the young ducks frozen in the water pail. It had never happened to us before. We didn't think too much about it but we were sad all the same. Then two days later we found another young duck dead, this time beside the water pail but it was soaked. We still had no idea what was going on. So today we were getting ready to go to dinner and we were putting everyone up and feeding, and we discovered our male goat in the duck yard and there was yet another duck soaked and shivering in the water pail.

So the goat was locked in his pen and we rescued the duck and took her inside to a warm bath. She was so cold she was shivering and couldn't hold her head up. She was also bleeding from the beak. As we warmed her up we realized part of her feathers had been bitten off as well. I would have thought they were broken but the edges weren't ragged or uneven. They looked like they had been bitten off by something sharp.

We got her warmed up and installed her in a cage with a heat lamp for the night, doctored her beak, and she seems to be doing fine.

But now we have the mystery. Could the goat have bitten the duck or drowned the others? We've caught him in the duck yard once before eating their grain but never considered he might actually hurt them.

Anyone have experience with this? We're stumped and don't want to lose any more of our babies.

 

[Kassaundra]

Ksane, here are the promised pics of your twins, (I know you gave them "O" names, I couldn't remember them so I just call them boenerges (sons of thunder), but it's okay since they don't know their names)


Now where did that sneaky woman put those sprout?????




Did she really think she could hide them from ME!!!! muhahahah

 

[artsyrobin]

So now we have a duck problem ... mystery of sorts.

We've always had ducks. Not sure why because we don't eat their eggs. We just love having them. And this year we finally successfully hatched some. They've done fine and we moved them out to the duck pen and all was well.

Until last week. We woke up one morning to find one of the young ducks frozen in the water pail. It had never happened to us before. We didn't think too much about it but we were sad all the same. Then two days later we found another young duck dead, this time beside the water pail but it was soaked. We still had no idea what was going on. So today we were getting ready to go to dinner and we were putting everyone up and feeding, and we discovered our male goat in the duck yard and there was yet another duck soaked and shivering in the water pail.

So the goat was locked in his pen and we rescued the duck and took her inside to a warm bath. She was so cold she was shivering and couldn't hold her head up. She was also bleeding from the beak. As we warmed her up we realized part of her feathers had been bitten off as well. I would have thought they were broken but the edges weren't ragged or uneven. They looked like they had been bitten off by something sharp.

We got her warmed up and installed her in a cage with a heat lamp for the night, doctored her beak, and she seems to be doing fine.

But now we have the mystery. Could the goat have bitten the duck or drowned the others? We've caught him in the duck yard once before eating their grain but never considered he might actually hurt them.

Anyone have experience with this? We're stumped and don't want to lose any more of our babies.

that is sad! I am glad you rescued that girl- guessing, since i have never had goats- but could he be getting territorial about the food? i'd sure make it goat proof just to see...

 

[TRUE5]

If you have any resp antibiotics like Tetroxy HCA or Gallymicin I would give her a round of that, or a shot of Tylan daily for 3 days.

Just finished revamping my website for the year, I've been working on it for a week and it is a TON of work! Take a look and see what you think! Hubby wants to offer a "local pickup discount" too like 15% off. Gives close friends and BYCers a better deal and saves us the hassle of shipping. www.chickenfanatics.com

And our little puppy is growing up!

Izzy (10 year old aussie mix) and Merlin (7 month old Aussie)

I will try to find those... do you just get any one of those from a feed store? The resp meds I mean... unless I can find one of those adorable dogs there as well that would be a plus! I don't know much about giving chickens a shot so anything that doesn't require a needle is great for me. Oh I LOVE your dogs!!!!

Look at that FLUFFYNESS!! Love it! Oh, I tried your site. It wouldn't load for me.

 

[Kassaundra]

Some of the others from today (mine this time not ksane's)





Little girl, I don't know if this is possible but I think she is daughter of Little Man (Manny). He is a black breasted red araucana, don't have a clue how he would make a daughter w/ this color, but she is so small and he was my only small chicken male or female.



One of the Things



Shakespear, son of Mensa and Jaxom



Reba



Cool J son of Jaxom and Jackie O, also a sc carrier, my only one left





Audra, though she only has one "horn" left of her comb, so her name no longer fits her



Jackie O

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I will try to find those... do you just get any one of those from a feed store? The resp meds I mean... unless I can find one of those adorable dogs there as well that would be a plus! I don't know much about giving chickens a shot so anything that doesn't require a needle is great for me. Oh I LOVE your dogs!!!!

Look at that FLUFFYNESS!! Love it! Oh, I tried your site. It wouldn't load for me.

You can get the Tetroxy HCA at any feed store, might have to look in the calf/pig medicine area. Gallimycin I've had to order online, I haven't seen it local to me yet although a feed store could probably special order it. I like it better because it is a shorter treatment (5-7 days versus 10-14 for the Tetroxy) and you don't have to dump and refill EVERY DAY like you do with the Tetroxy. But I have noticed the Tetroxy is more effective for bad cases.

The Tylan is an injectable, Atwoods has it, I buy the small gauge insulin needles at the pharmacy and give chicks 1/4 CC and adults 1/2 CC when needed.

Grrr... the website editor got stuck this afternoon I guess and dumped all my changes. I just fixed them all again. Will you give it a try again pretty please? www.chickenfanatics.com. Thanks!